I have a friend who lives in Oregon now but he was in the Coast Guard here in the 1960's. I might have some of the details wrong because it has been 20 years or so since this was told to me but: I think they were stationed in Mare Island and they were patrolling in the Oakland Esturary, SF Bay and they came across a stranded boat with some very lovely young ladies who had intended on a day of water skiing. Well I forget all the details, but you know they ended up pulling them behind the Coast Guard boat and they had went by Treasure Island doing this. They didn't know it but the Admiral's house is on Treasure Island. They got a call on the radio telling them to return to base immediately that the CO wanted to talk to them. They figured they had had it now they would be in trouble forever. When they pulled up to the dock their CO was standing on the dock holding a folded american flag in his arms. They couldn't think of why he would be doing this but they thought this can't be a good thing. When they tied up their CO wants to talk to my friend as he was in charge of the ship and he tells him "the Admiral wanted me to tell you that he saw you going by his house and that your flag looked a little tattered. He also wanted me to tell you that he never wants to see that happen again, and to keep up the good work." My buddy said that his CO looked kind of puzzled over the whole deal, and told them to put this flag on right now and he would hold him personally responsible if their flag had so much as a spot on it ever again.